Moving User folder off SSD (including appdata)

madindehead · 30 May 2011 at 01:05

I was wondering, has anyone ever tried doing this: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/87555-user-profile-change-default-location.html to change the location of their entire User folder (including appdata etc)

I am getting an SSD soon, and I wanted to know if anyone has successfully done this?

Might give it a try on my current setup before moving over.

Just to add, I have moved my Documents folder etc before (using change location) but never all the appdata as well.

I have found a potentially better way to do all this, which also moves ProgramData off the main drive too, can be found here Turns out, it can be done during or after a Windows installation. Interesting for sure!

madindehead · 30 May 2011 at 23:44

Just managed to get mine to work, took a wee while, and some work arounds (deleting a registry key for update, and closing down WMPlayer Network Sharing).

SSD is arriving in the next day or two, or will be ace for when I have that!

madindehead · 30 May 2011 at 23:50

Also moved my ProgramData. Also, managed to find I can get Chrome on Program Files instead of appdata, so that was good too

madindehead · 2 Jun 2011 at 21:11

Thanks for the offer skanky, but I already have it all moved and working

I moved it all after my Windows installation, as I wanted to make sure everything was on my SSD (had a problem last install with boot manager not being on the system drive).

Still, all worked VERY well. Loving having it on a different drive, and it doesn't really seem to affect performance much

If I had the money, a Velociraptor might be nice for my appdata, but can't afford it

madindehead · 6 Jun 2011 at 00:24

skanky said:
sorry i didnt see this, i will do it when i get in tonight (5pm)

madindehead: before i found this XML fix, i had to do it manually after logging in and it seemed to work fine but there was a lot of faffing about, the XML is so much more elegant if you're installing from USB as its easy to drop the file into the root.

personally, i ended up going back to all on C: drive due to space constraints and having too much one partition and not on the other.

Yeah, I do it using the .xml also

Using SYSPREP to move the data. Pretty fast